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This front is blue with blue triangles coming out of one side of the line.
What is a cold front?
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These clouds are thunderstorm clouds that have started as cumulus clouds that have grown dramatically vertically. This cloud is dark gray in color and produces precipitation and releases energy.
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
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An air mass is an extremely large body of air whose properties of temperature and moisture content (humidity), at any given altitude, are fairly similar in any horizontal direction.
What is an air mass?
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Tornadoes are formed when different temperatures and humidities meet to form thunderclouds.
What creates a tornado?
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The Greenhouse Effect is the trapping of the sun's warmth in Earth’s lower atmosphere due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the Earth’s surface.
What is the greenhouse effect?
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This front is red with red half circles coming out of one side of the line.
What is a warm front?
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This cloud forms between 6,000-20,000ft. They look like puffy gray balls/blobs and can appear in rows. If you see these clouds on a hot summer morning can mean a thunderstorm at night.
What is altocumulus clouds?
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Polar latitudes P - typically located pole ward of 60 degrees north and south
What is polar air mass and where does it develop (Give the approximate latitudes.)?
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Natural disasters are extreme events caused by environmental factors that can damage/destroy property and/or living things.
What is a natural disaster?
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Up to 136,000 mph
What is the highest speed a lightning bolt can travel?
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This cloud forms above 18,000 ft and is thin. This cloud causes a fuzzy halo around sun/moon to form because of ice crystals. If you see this cloud, it usually means it will snow.
What is cirrostratus cloud?
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Tropical latitudes T - typically located within about 25 degrees of the equator
What is a tropical air mass and where does it develop?
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A severe snowstorm with high winds and low visibility.
What is a blizzard?
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High air pressure
What is the H on a weather map and what does it stand for?
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This front is purple with both triangles and half circles coming out of one side of the line.
What is an occluded front?
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This cloud forms between 6,000-20,000 ft and covers the entire sky. This cloud produces steady precipitation before a storm.
What is altostratus cloud?
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continental c - located over large land masses--dry
What is a continental air mass and where does it develop?
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Climate affects weather events in an area because different types of precipitation and storms will be formed or fall in certain areas.(EX. In a desert that's highest temperature in a day is 105 F, the probability of snow falling during that temperature is impossible unlike a place like Antarctica which coldest temperature a day is -30 F and with nimbostratus clouds likely to bring snow.)
What does climate have to do with weather events?
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Low air pressure.
What is the L on a weather map?
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This front is a mix of red triangles and blue half circles that alternate on each side.
What is a stationary front?
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This cloud forms below 6,000 ft and produces a steady precipitation. You cannot see the sun/moon through this cloud.
What is nimbostratus cloud?
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marine m - located over the oceans----moist
What is marine air mass and where does it develop?
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A wildfire can be caused by humans or by hot temperatures. Wildfires are considered as natural disasters.
What is a wildfire and is it a natural disaster?
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Violent weather usually occurs during spring, when continental polar air clashes with maritime tropical air.
What is the time of year the United States has its most violent weather?